I also for a while ran gnome2 with compiz with a bootload of 3d effects
that were mostly cool but pointless ;-)

On 25/06/25 10:51, Daniel Reurich (Centurion) wrote:
>
> I don't use it, and ditched gnome when version 3 came along.
>
> As to removing it from Devuan.  There might be a case for dropping it
> from task-select, but I think that's premature if it's not yet
> broken.  But perhaps it could come with a warning or dropped into a
> subset of  "bloated and possibly broken desktop environments" in order
> to make it clear that it's not recommended.
>
> As an aside here's my view on desktops at the moment:
>
> Gnome 2.4 was already badly bloated and slow but bearable.
>
> Gnome 3 with it's gnome-shell was nothing more then an attempt to
> foist MS Windows 8 nonsense on the linux desktop.
>
> So I switched to and continue to use the much lighter XFCE and have
> found it ok.  Not perfect but a good balance of fairly lightweight and
> sensible window management and extra's like panels notifiers etc.  It
> is fairly functional and not that hard for newbies to get used to -
> even when coming from windows for the first time.  I help a lot of
> people off the Microsoft dependency and they all invariably start with
> XFCE as their first step.
>
> Mate seemed to continue the bloated gnome 2.4 experience, and Cinammon
> just being a reskinned gnome-shell whilst a big improvement on Gnome3
> UI wise, was just as sluggish IMHO.
>
>
> On 23/06/25 20:32, Erik Christiansen via Dng wrote:
>> On 22.06.25 18:59, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > But maybe, more to the point, we can have an unofficial poll to see
>> > how many Devuan users regularly use Gnome as a desktop environment.
>>
>> Not here, on any machine.
>>
>> TBT, I just use the install default, currently xfce on beowulf. The
>> laptop has an older lxde, and I can't tell the difference - they all
>> seem identical to me. (I have 'em autostart 4 xterms, one with mutt, and
>> roam the others, vimming 'n whatnot. They all run firefox, xpdf, and
>> kicad just the same, so how would you know?)
>>
>> The only observed nicety is Applications->office->dictionary on xfce.
>> Ah, it's xfce4-dict. Maybe I could just  install it on lxde if that's
>> what turns
>> up next install.
>>
>> Erik
>>
>>
>>
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